maestro-react-player
v1.12.8
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A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, Wistia and DailyMotion
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Usage
npm install react-player --save
# or
yarn add react-player
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import ReactPlayer from 'react-player'
class App extends Component {
render () {
return <ReactPlayer url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysz5S6PUM-U' playing />
}
}
Demo page: https://cookpete.com/react-player
The component parses a URL and loads in the appropriate markup and external SDKs to play media from various sources. Props can be passed in to control playback and react to events such as buffering or media ending. See the demo source for a full example.
For platforms like Meteor without direct use of npm
modules, a minified version of ReactPlayer
is located in dist
after installing. To generate this file yourself, checkout the repo and run npm run build:dist
.
Polyfills
- If you are using
npm
and need to support browsers withoutPromise
you will need aPromise
polyfill. - To support IE11 you will need to use
babel-polyfill
or a similar ES2015+ polyfill.
Autoplay
As of Chrome 66, videos must be muted
in order to play automatically. Some players, like Facebook, cannot be unmuted until the user interacts with the video, so you may want to enable controls
to allow users to unmute videos themselves.
Props
Prop | Description | Default
---- | ----------- | -------
url
| The url of a video or song to play ◦ Can be an array or MediaStream
object
playing
| Set to true
or false
to pause or play the media | false
loop
| Set to true
or false
to loop the media | false
controls
| Set to true
or false
to display native player controls ◦ Vimeo, Twitch and Wistia player will always display controls | false
volume
| Set the volume of the player, between 0
and 1
◦ null
uses default volume on all players #357
| null
muted
| Mutes the player ◦ Only works if volume
is set | false
playbackRate
| Set the playback rate of the player ◦ Only supported by YouTube, Wistia, and file paths | 1
width
| Set the width of the player | 640px
height
| Set the height of the player | 360px
style
| Add inline styles to the root element | {}
progressInterval
| The time between onProgress
callbacks, in milliseconds | 1000
playsinline
| Applies the playsinline
attribute where supported | false
wrapper
| Element or component to use as the container element | div
config
| Override options for the various players, see config prop
Callback props
Callback props take a function that gets fired on various player events:
Prop | Description
---- | -----------
onReady
| Called when media is loaded and ready to play. If playing
is set to true
, media will play immediately
onStart
| Called when media starts playing
onPlay
| Called when media starts or resumes playing after pausing or buffering
onProgress
| Callback containing played
and loaded
progress as a fraction, and playedSeconds
and loadedSeconds
in seconds ◦ eg { played: 0.12, playedSeconds: 11.3, loaded: 0.34, loadedSeconds: 16.7 }
onDuration
| Callback containing duration of the media, in seconds
onPause
| Called when media is paused
onBuffer
| Called when media starts buffering
onSeek
| Called when media seeks with seconds
parameter
onEnded
| Called when media finishes playing
onError
| Called when an error occurs whilst attempting to play media
Config prop
As of version 0.24
, there is a single config
prop to override the settings for the various players. If you are migrating from an earlier version, you must move all the old config props inside config
:
<ReactPlayer
url={url}
config={{
youtube: {
playerVars: { showinfo: 1 }
},
facebook: {
appId: '12345'
}
}}
/>
The old style config props still work but will produce a console warning:
<ReactPlayer
url={url}
youtubeConfig={{ playerVars: { showinfo: 1 } }}
facebookConfig={{ appId: '12345' }}
/>
Settings for each player live under different keys:
Key | Options
--- | -------
youtube
| playerVars
: Override the default player varspreload
: Used for preloading
facebook
| appId
: Your own Facebook app ID
soundcloud
| options
: Override the default player optionspreload
: Used for preloading
vimeo
| playerOptions
: Override the default paramspreload
: Used for preloading
wistia
| options
: Override the default player options
mixcloud
| options
: Override the default player options
dailymotion
| params
: Override the default player varspreload
: Used for preloading
twitch
| options
: Override the default player options
file
| attributes
: Apply element attributesforceVideo
: Always render a <video>
elementforceAudio
: Always render an <audio>
elementforceHLS
: Use hls.js for HLS streamsforceDASH
: Always use dash.js for DASH streamshlsOptions
: Override the default hls.js
options
Preloading
When preload
is set to true
for players that support it, a short, silent video is played in the background when ReactPlayer
first mounts. This fixes a bug where videos would not play when loaded in a background browser tab.
Methods
Static Methods
Method | Description
------ | -----------
ReactPlayer.canPlay(url)
| Determine if a URL can be played. This does not detect media that is unplayable due to privacy settings, streaming permissions, etc. In that case, the onError
prop will be invoked after attemping to play. Any URL that does not match any patterns will fall back to a native HTML5 media player.
ReactPlayer.addCustomPlayer(CustomPlayer)
| Add a custom player. See Adding custom players
ReactPlayer.removeCustomPlayers()
| Remove any players that have been added using addCustomPlayer()
Instance Methods
Use ref
to call instance methods on the player. See the demo app for an example of this.
Method | Description
------ | -----------
seekTo(amount)
| Seek to the given number of seconds, or fraction if amount
is between 0
and 1
getCurrentTime()
| Returns the number of seconds that have been played ◦ Returns null
if unavailable
getSecondsLoaded()
| Returns the number of seconds that have been loaded ◦ Returns null
if unavailable or unsupported
getDuration()
| Returns the duration (in seconds) of the currently playing media ◦ Returns null
if duration is unavailable
getInternalPlayer()
| Returns the internal player of whatever is currently playing ◦ eg the YouTube player instance, or the <video>
element when playing a video file ◦ Use getInternalPlayer('hls')
to get the hls.js player ◦ Use getInternalPlayer('dash')
to get the dash.js player ◦ Returns null
if the internal player is unavailable
Advanced Usage
Responsive player
Set width
and height
to 100%
and wrap the player in a fixed aspect ratio box to get a responsive player:
class ResponsivePlayer extends Component {
render () {
return (
<div className='player-wrapper'>
<ReactPlayer
className='react-player'
url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysz5S6PUM-U'
width='100%'
height='100%'
/>
</div>
)
}
}
.player-wrapper {
position: relative;
padding-top: 56.25% /* Player ratio: 100 / (1280 / 720) */
}
.react-player {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
See jsFiddle
example
Single player imports
If you are only ever playing a single type of URL, you can import individual players to keep your bundle size down:
import YouTubePlayer from 'react-player/lib/players/YouTube'
<YouTubePlayer
url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46Azg3Pm4c'
playing
controls
// Other ReactPlayer props will work here
/>
See a list of available players here.
Standalone player
If you aren’t using React, you can still render a player using the standalone library:
<script src='https://cdn.rawgit.com/CookPete/react-player/standalone/dist/ReactPlayer.standalone.js'></script>
<script>
const container = document.getElementById('container')
const url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46Azg3Pm4c'
renderReactPlayer(container, { url, playing: true })
function pausePlayer () {
renderReactPlayer(container, { url, playing: false })
}
</script>
See jsFiddle
example
Adding custom players
If you have your own player that is compatible with ReactPlayer’s internal architecture, you can add it using addCustomPlayer
:
import YourOwnPlayer from './somewhere';
ReactPlayer.addCustomPlayer(YourOwnPlayer);
Use removeCustomPlayers
to clear all custom players:
ReactPlayer.removeCustomPlayers();
It is your responsibility to ensure that custom players keep up with any internal changes to ReactPlayer in later versions.
Using Bower
bower install react-player --save
<script src='bower_components/react/react.js'></script>
<script src='bower_components/react/react-dom.js'></script>
<script src='bower_components/react-player/dist/ReactPlayer.js'></script>
<script>
ReactDOM.render(
<ReactPlayer url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46Azg3Pm4c' playing />,
document.getElementById('container')
)
</script>
Mobile considerations
Due to various restrictions, ReactPlayer
is not guaranteed to function properly on mobile devices. The YouTube player documentation, for example, explains that certain mobile browsers require user interaction before playing:
The HTML5
<video>
element, in certain mobile browsers (such as Chrome and Safari), only allows playback to take place if it’s initiated by a user interaction (such as tapping on the player).
Multiple Sources and Tracks
When playing file paths, an array of sources can be passed to the url
prop to render multiple <source>
tags.
<ReactPlayer playing url={['foo.webm', 'foo.ogg']} />
You can also specify a type
for each source by using objects with src
and type
properties.
<ReactPlayer
playing
url={[
{src: 'foo.webm', type: 'video/webm'},
{src: 'foo.ogg', type: 'video/ogg'}
]}
/>
<track>
elements for subtitles can be added using fileConfig
:
<ReactPlayer
playing
url='foo.webm'
config={{ file: {
tracks: [
{kind: 'subtitles', src: 'subs/subtitles.en.vtt', srcLang: 'en', default: true},
{kind: 'subtitles', src: 'subs/subtitles.ja.vtt', srcLang: 'ja'},
{kind: 'subtitles', src: 'subs/subtitles.de.vtt', srcLang: 'de'}
]
}}}
/>
Supported media
- YouTube videos use the YouTube iFrame Player API
- Facebook videos use the Facebook Embedded Video Player API
- SoundCloud tracks use the SoundCloud Widget API
- Streamable videos use
Player.js
- Vidme videos are no longer supported
- Vimeo videos use the Vimeo Player API
- Wistia videos use the Wistia Player API
- Twitch videos use the Twitch Interactive Frames API
- DailyMotion videos use the DailyMotion Player API
- Supported file types are playing using
<video>
or<audio>
elements
Contributing
See the contribution guidelines before creating a pull request.
Thanks
- Many thanks to Kostya Luchankin for help overhauling the player inheritance patterns.
- Thanks to anyone who has contributed.